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Monday, July 30, 2012

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>New Diet Pills Offer Option To Off-Label Obesity Drugs - Wall Street Journal

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:50 PM PDT


New Diet Pills Offer Option To Off-Label Obesity Drugs
Wall Street Journal
The new drugs are FDA approved for patients with a body mass index of 30 or higher, or with a BMI of 27 and high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol or sleep apnea. People with very large amounts of weight to lose may benefit more from bariatric ...
FDA Approves New Weight-Loss Drug Qsymia CisionWire (press release)

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>'Obese' label may not apply to heavy ex-NFL players - Medical Xpress

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:47 PM PDT


'Obese' label may not apply to heavy ex-NFL players
Medical Xpress
"We found [body-mass index] to overestimate the number of obesity cases in a population of retired professional football athletes," Dr. Mark Hyman and colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a news release from the American ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Top Ten Obesity Risks Infographic - Melodika.net (press release)

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 11:35 AM PDT


Top Ten Obesity Risks Infographic
Melodika.net (press release)
The Body Mass Index calculation measures an individual's weight against their height. While a BMI of under 25 is considered to be healthy, health risks increase dramatically when an individual has a BMI of over 30 with those with a BMI of over 40 ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Column: Weighing in on the obesity problem - Jamestown Sun

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:31 AM PDT


Column: Weighing in on the obesity problem
Jamestown Sun
By a scant two pounds, I have slipped inadvertently into the "fat" category as defined by the Body Mass Index. That makes me partly responsible for the 80 percent increase in the number of fat and obese people in North Dakota over the past 15 years.

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Josh Freed: You could count every word you read today

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 07:02 PM PDT

I was biking with my pal Kilometre Man the other day and we paused, as usual, so he could announce our first hour's results tracked on his "cyclo-computer."

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>BMI: Ohio school children screenings - 19 Action News

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 06:52 PM PDT


BMI: Ohio school children screenings
19 Action News
The Ohio Department of Health released the' first report on Body Mass Index (BMI) screenings of Ohio's school children Wednesday. Senate Bill 210 of the 128th General Assembly requires school districts to conduct individual-level BMI screenings each ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Know your BMI: Ask your doctor for a screening

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 08:12 AM PDT

Chances are you know your blood pressure. What about your BMI? read more By date (default)

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